TECHNO CORNER
Techno Corner gives the SGI customer a window into technical information
on Silicon Graphics' systems, from our news groups to white papers.
Some of this information is archived and maintained by outside
organizations.
IndiZone
3rd and Final IndiZone Games Contest.
Blix is the maze game that won the IndiZone II contest
in the category solo games and is now available for downloading.
Workstation/Client Periodic Table
View Silicon Graphics' Workstation/Client periodic table.
Silicon Graphics User Groups
Get involved in the
Silicon Graphics User Group in your area.
WAIS Archive of News groups
comp.sys.sgi archive -
This is a searchable archive of comp.sys.sgi news groups, maintained by
Harry Mangalam (mangalam@uci.edu) at the University of California
Irvine.
Technical Resources
The following is technical information, such as frequently asked
questions (FAQs) and links to the Silicon Graphics FTP Archive.
- Hypertext FAQs
- SGI FTP Archive: freely available
software, patches,info
- Silicon Surf FTP Archive
- Other FTP Sites
OpenGL is an industry-standard API for graphics programming.
OpenGL is a vendor-neutral interface, which can be found on many
different hardware platforms, from PCs to workstations.
Section contains information for the IRIS Explorer data
visualisation system.
IRIS Performer is a software development
environment for implementing high performance graphics
applications.
The ImageVision LibraryTM (IL) from Silicon Graphics is an object-oriented, extensible toolkit for
creating, processing, and displaying images on all Silicon Graphics workstations. The library provides
image processing application developers with a robust framework for managing and manipulating image
IRIS Impressario provides high performance printing and scanning solutions
for end users, applications developers and driver developers.
This section contains information on IRIS Inventor and Open Inventor,
SGI's comprehensive solution to interactive graphics programming.
Read about ISDN for INDY.
Grafica Obscura is a compilation of
technical notes, pictures, and essays collected by Paul Haeberli,
a Principal Scientist at SGI and an all around image guru.
Technical Papers
This area consists of technical papers written by Silicon Graphics
employees or partners. This is information that we feel might be of
interest to the Silicon Graphics community or the general Internet
community. The papers are organized into subject areas for browsing
convienence.
Networking
Hardware
Software Applications
Online Publishing
Silicon Graphics, Inc has announced the newest versions of its IRIX operating
systems.
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